The Bodyguard (1979 film)

The Bodyguard
The Bodyguard
	Ali Khamraev
Written by	Ali Khamraev
Produced by	Marat Khasanov
Starring	Alexander Kaidanovsky; Anatoly Solonitsyn; Gulcha Tashbaeva; Shavkat Abdusalyamov
Cinematography	Leonid Kalashnikov; Yuri Klimenko; Vyacheslav Semin
Edited by	R. Vardanyan
Music by	Eduard Artemyev
Production; company	Tajikfilm
Release date	1979;
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Bodyguard (

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Plot

The setting is Central Asia during the

Basmachi rebels was in full swing. When a Red Army detachment captures Sultan Nazar (Anatoly Solonitsyn), the brains behind the Basmachi contingent, a decision is made to escort urgently the prisoner to the Bukhara province. The difficult mission is entrusted to a grizzled mountain trapper and conscientious revolutionary Mirzo. His expertise is essential to traverse the precarious paths and steep mountain ridges along the way, impossible terrain for the inexperienced. A group consisting of Mirzo (Alexander Kaidanovsky), his brother Kova, the Sultan, his daughter Zarangis (D. Alimova) and slave

Saifulla set off on this journey, pursued doggedly along the way by Fottabek (Shavkat Abdusalyamov), the ruthless new head of the Basmachis. They are forced to fight on the mountain ridges as well as negotiate the natural dangers and harsh elements.